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Murder story of Yarmolintsy Jews in the Grabiny Vegetable Garden
Murder Site
Grabina
Ukraine (USSR)
According to an eyewitness, on July 9, 1941 German soldiers rounded up 16 Jewish men in Yarmolintsy, took them to the nearby village of Grabiny, and shot them to death in a vegetable garden of one of the village residents. After the shooting the soldiers made the resident prepare a pit and bury the victims there.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
From the testimony of Grigoryi Gumenchuk, a Ukrainian resident of Grabiny village (near Yarmolintsy), who was living there during the war
... On July 9, 1941 the German soldiers rounded up 16 local residents [Jewish men] in the town of Yarmolintsy, took them to my vegetable garden and shot them in the head, and then made me dig a pit, take off their shoes, and bury their bodies in the pit....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-64-818 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19712
Grabina
vegetable garden
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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